At the Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum, Geoffrey Spence, who heads up Infrastructure UK, the Treasury body that oversees the UK’s infrastructure plan, gave an overview of the National Infrastructure Plan of the UK. The fact […]
At the Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum, a very interesting presentation was given by two consultants from McKinsey on the major trends in global infrastructure development and some suggestions of ways to address some of the […]
President Obama in his State of the Union speech specifically called out infrastructure as requiring significant investment. He said that “our infrastructure used to be the best”, and mentioned countries such as Russia, China, South […]
Yesterday at Distributech Utility University John D McDonald, currently with GE, presented the perspective a very experienced electric power industry veteran, but also of a visonary and a pioneer, on substation automation and managing the […]
Yesterday at the Distributech Utility University, Erich Gunther, Ron Farquharson, Sandy Bacik, and Christian Perreault gave a very well researched, in-depth overview of the state of smart grid in North America. Starting from the premise […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released a second report in the series called Failure to Act. The first in the series dealt with transportation. Drinking water The ASCE points out that […]
One of the major challenges facing companies that are responsible for managing the world’s infrastructure networks is data quality. I have blogged about data quality on multiple occasions (here, here, here and here). At Autodesk University Peter Barcza, Managing Director of […]
According to the National Infrastructure Plan 2011 HM Government plans to provide £5 billion by 2014-15 while it is hoping to planning to attract £20 billion from private investors. The Treasury hopes two-thirds of the of the funding […]